English Dictionary

Atlas

/ˈætləs/

name

(Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.

Atlas was a Titan in Greek mythology.

意味（1）

(Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.

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(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.

意味（3）

(astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.

意味（4）

(astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.

意味（5）

(countable) A surname.

意味（6）

(astronautics, military, US) The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.